Angelina Jolie Pitt Voight; born June 4, 1975) is
an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been
cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a
child alongside her father, Jon
Voight, in Lookin ' to Get Out( 1982).
Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading
role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically
acclaimed biographical television films George
Wallace (1997) andGia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress for her performance in
the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie's
starring role as the video game heroine Lara
Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading
Hollywood actress. She continued her successful action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim
for her performances in the dramas A
Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination
for an Academy Award for Best
Actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career by directing and
producing the wartime dramas In
the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
and Unbroken (2014). Her biggest commercial success
came with the Disneyfantasy Maleficent (2014).
In
addition to her film career, Jolie is noted for her humanitarian efforts, for
which she has received a Jean
Hersholt Humanitarian Award and
an honorary damehood of the Order
of St Michael and St George (DCMG),
among other honors. She promotes various causes, including conservation,
education, and women's rights, and is most noted for her advocacy on behalf of
refugees as aSpecial Envoy for
the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most influential and
powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the world's
most beautiful woman, by various media outlets. Her personal life is the
subject of wide publicity: divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy
Bob Thornton, she is now married to actor Brad
Pitt. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted
internationally.
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